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  • Apr. 23rd, 2005 at 4:27 PM
Prophet, Politician

From http://politicalsurvey2005.com/ which uses pollig data from YouGov and compares your position to other respondents and YouGov's data. Looks pretty accurate from my perspective, I'd love to see how it comes out for others. My full results are:
http://politicalsurvey2005.com/survey/CAHBHADFCBBDABDDDEABBDBAEDBCCBBADDDEADBDDB

I redid http://www.politicalcompass.org/ again.
Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -5.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.26

And, again, I think it makes me slightly more extreme left/down than I should be, but not too far.

The top one is very good in my opinion. Go on. It's just another meme, right?

Comments

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[info]paulatpingu wrote:
Apr. 23rd, 2005 09:16 am (UTC)


Did it a few days ago so just went back through and filled it out as best as I remember.

Sounds about right for me I think - moderately centre-left economically but very pro-Europe and internationalism.

Tis a very site, IMO.
[info]freddiefraggles wrote:
Apr. 23rd, 2005 02:44 pm (UTC)


considering i'm really having to try hard to ignore all the elections coverage because it annoys me so much, this has intriguied me - only thing is i have no idea how to interpret it... i think i'll vote liberal democrat, but i'm not really sure at the moment, we'll have to wait and see.

my full results were: http://www.politicalsurvey2005.com/scripts/quiz?s=CKCAAADBBCCBDCEBDBCCBCABBDCDDBAEEBDEDDDDDB
[info]matgb wrote:
Apr. 23rd, 2005 06:20 pm (UTC)
i have no idea how to interpret it
Essentially, the test says that you're roughly in the middle on crime and punishment, social issues and Europe, with a tolerant streak, and slightly in favour of worker protection over corporate profits while being moderately anti-war.

That suggests you should not vote Tory (as Tory supporters/policies are to the right of the middle, and especially at the moment where their polices are designed to appeal to the reactionary bigotted Daily Mail believing brigade, and should instead consider a more tolerant party; Greens, LibDems and Labour. Your preference for social protection essentially rules out New Labour, leaving Greens and LibDems. Greens are unlikely to win any seats anywhere, so, due to the crappy system, create a wasted vote. So vote LibDem.

So says the card carrying member anyway...

Make sense?
[info]freddiefraggles wrote:
Apr. 23rd, 2005 06:29 pm (UTC)
Re: i have no idea how to interpret it
yeah i think so. i was going to vote libdem anyway... if my postal vote card thingy arrives anyway...
(Anonymous) wrote:
Apr. 23rd, 2005 02:59 pm (UTC)
My results completely contradicted the answers I'd given. My positioning was more or less okay but the eg war and rehabilitation ones were exactly opposite...
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